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neral post-office, they should have been delivered free. As for the demand for additional payment for letters, the post master-general assumed a right through his surveyor, to mark out the boundaries of towns. This was done often in a very unfair manner ; yet in the present unfortunate state of post-office law, the Surveyor's fiat was in these matters decisive, and he was able to ride over the general law of the land. If, concluded Mr. Wallace, addressing Mr. Mushet, you allow me to retain this letter, I shall communicate with the general post-office on the subject, and make known to you the result.—(Great cheering.) The CIIAIRMAN here rose, and addressed the meeting. They had heard, he said, the full, distinct, and interest ing account of the events of last Session, which their estimable and most efficient representative had now laid oefore them. He was sure that statement could not but be satisfactory to them all.—(Great cheering.) Mr. Wallace had stated truly the toils and the troubles which a conscientious representative of the people had to u ndergo.—(Loud cheers.) Were a fault to be found with the statement they had just heard in relation to this part of the subject, that fault would be that it did not go far enough. Mr. Wallace had spoken of the member who wished to do his duty, being in his place by half-past eleven in the morning ; but he (Provost Wee) could go farther than this from his own personal knowledge. He had on several occasions, when in London, called on Mr. Wallace, not at half-past eleven, but at half-past nine, and he uni formly found him engaged in the service of the public—not with two or three letters lying beside him, but with an immense heap of papers, which he, for his part, knew not haw he got through.—(Great cheering.) He would add, that it was not only in the morning that Mr. Wallace was found at his post. Throughout the day their indefatigable Representative was always ready to work for his constitu ents and the public. Mr. WALLACE said there was one thing he had forgotten to say to them, though certainly it had occupied his mind in a prominent degree when he entered the meeting. He had now once more to place in their hands the important trust which they had reposed in him. Ho could say that hitherto he had done his duty towards them zealously, honestly, and fearlessly, and he was also sure that should circumstances call upon him to retire—let those circum stances be what they might—they might all meet in the streets of Greenock with as much good humour, and as much good feeling towards each other, as that which was now so happily displayed.—( Immense cheering.) A question was then put by an individual, which, so far as we understood, related to the system of giving grants of public money for educational purposes. This question Mr. Wallace answered to the satisfaction of the meeting, after which Mr. STEELE rose to move a series of resolutions. Mr. Steele said, after the every way well bestowed compliment which the Chairman had paid to their excellent represen tative, it was needless for him to say anything whatever on the subject. As a private individual, and as a public ser vant, Mr. Wallace's exertions could not but be appreciated by the people of Greenock. There was not a constituency in the kingdom that had more reason to be proud of their representative than they had. While others were afraid to meet their constituents in the face, he was always ready to appear among them.—( Loud and long continued cheer ing.) When Mr. W. came first forward as a candidate for their suffrages, he was known to many, but he was also a stranger to many. Hence pledges as to his political views and conduct were asked and given. These pledges had all been fulfilled ; how far others had come short in like circumstances was too generally known. Mr. Steele here read the resolutions. They were received with the most enthusiastic applause. Bailie STUART said it was now the fourth time that he bad had the pleasure of seconding such a motion as that now made, and he was convinced that those present parti cipated in the satisfaction which he now felt.—(Cheers.) The resolutions were then unanimously carried. Mr. WALLACE returned thanks. He would now assure them, as he did when they first elected him, that he felt deeply sensible of their great kindness. They would cot doubt that expressions of respect and attachment from such a meeting as the present, would be dear to his heart. Many Members would be proud of the like, who did not receive them. But, of such, he would say nothing. For himself he would say, that his utmost exertions would still be made for the good of the country generally, and for this locality, and to further every improvement called for, and within reach. They had not yet been able to obtain all that they wanted, and to which they had a right ; but they had made considerable progress, and, despite of the pre sent appearances, he did not doubt that they would be able to effect much during the next session. The resolu tions which had now been read and carried, were in the highest degree complimentary. He hoped that he had al ready been able to do something to deserve them, and that next session he would be able to do more. His exertions would still be directed to the great objects of Law and of Post-Office Reform. The cheapening of the correspon dence of distant friends was of the utmost importance ; it was indeed a disgrace to a civilized community, that the in tercourse of affection should ever have been subjected to a tax for the purposes of revenue.—(Great cheering.) Thanks were then voted to the Provost, for his conduct in the Chair ; and three cheers having been given for Mr. W":llace, and three groans for the House of Peers, the meeting broke up. In the bay of Argostoli, in the island of Cepha lonia, there are streams which flow from the sea into the land, and one of them has been employed to turn a mill. Many hypotheses have been started to account for this phenomenon, come supposing a difference of level on different sides of the island, and that the stream flowing through a subterranean tunnel restored the equilibrium ; others supposed that some volcanic relations are involved, although there does not exist any recent volcanic formation in the neighbourhood, and during an earthquake no effect was produced upon these rivulets. DANTE AND MILTON.—A writer in the French National, with the signature " A," gives the following paral lelism between these two great poets:—" In the number of poets who have honoured the cause of freedom, Milton must be placed by the side of Dante ; their fate and their genius present more than one resemblance, and their poems have reached the two poles of the religious world, hell and heaven. Dante, however, is inspired only by the sight of eternal pu nishment ; Milton is an equally admirable painter of Pan demonium and Eden ; Dante has made a sublime satire, he has his revenge of mankind. Milton has written a magnifi cent elegy ; he weeps over its fall. The first has all the sad ness, the latter all the sympathy, of a soul which has suffered much—a soft and majestic passion which reveals better than the sombre power of the Florentine a magnanimous and powerful spirit." FRENCH EULOGY OF MILTON.—Milton conversed very pleasantly, and made a profitable use of what he gathered both from the distinguished individuals who visited, or from those whom he met in his travels. His conversation was also exceedingly instructive to others, for he had earned nothing without study. His course of reading and labour continued without interruption. Without here speaking of all that he had composed, one is perfectly astonished at the profundity of his knowledge. His literature was immense. He was master of the Hebrew with its two dialects, the Greek, the Latin, the Italian, the Spanish, and the French languages. He had learned Homer by heart, and a copy of Euripides is extant i which b e l onge d t o hi m , fill e d w ith notes written n his own hand. Johnson, a kind of English Boileau, who no more appreciated Milton than Boileau did Tasso, acknowledged that his Latinity was such as to place him in the highest rank of writers. and critics in the language of Rome. Milton composed verses in Italian, which were much praised by Algarotti, and th e aca d em i c i ans D e lla Cruses con sulted him on the imperfections of their language. He was well acquainted with music, which he has so well celebrated. He also encouraged his taste for the sciences—medicine, as tronomy, mathematics, natural history, agriculture, and botany. He even made a study of the military art, and it is said that lie was once about to be appointed Adjutant-General in Sir W. Waller's army. Indeed, his knowledge of theology, of philosophy, of history, and grammar, was quite equal to his vast erudition, and when we add t o hi s l earn i ng, so profound and universal, the devotion of his lif e t o t h e educat i on of youth, to public functions, his political an d controversial writings, his poems, and his books on history, his did act i c and elementary wo rks, his immense immense correspondence ; and when we think of the obstacles which persecution, domestic grief, poverty, blind ness, and the sufferings of body and mind which accumulated around him, and difficulty of regulating so much a p p li cat i on, one stands in astonishment and admiration bef ore so m i ghty an intellect which could combine so many great qualities and reconcile so many difficulties: --La National. Last evening an inquisition was held at the Three Cups public-house, Lambeth, before Mr. Carter, th e C oroner _view for Surrey, and a most respectable jury, on of the b o d y of Robert Hooper, aged 40, who terminated his existence by nearly severing his head from his body. James Wilkinson, a cooper, residing in Lambeth-walk, was in the employ of th e deceased, who was a master-cooper, residing in the Vauxhall road. Witness had known the deceased several years. He was addicted to drinking. He had a wife and four children. Verdi . et—Temporary Insanity. HULL, LINCOLN, AND NOTTINGHAM HAIL WAY.—The engineers have just completed their survey of this line, and have discovered a gorge in the Lincolnshire W olds, vicar Melton Ross, which seems formed by nature for the level of a railway. It will not now be necessary to skirt the Hum ber by Ferriby Sluice, Barton, &c., and the expense of walling up the foreshore will be saved. Mr. Abraham attended the atinnal meeting of the Ancholme Commissioners on Monday, at which were present the proprietors, or their representatives, of nearly the whole line of road between Lincoln and the H um b n ,-, including the t wo mem b ers f or t h e di v i s i on of Li n d. sq. He explained the int en d e d route, w hi c h was unan i mous l y supported. W e are glad to learn, that, among others, the fol lowing gentlemen have consented to act as provincial direc tors : —Sir Edward French Bromhe a d, B ar t., F. R. S., o f Thurlby Hall, Lincoln ; Lieut.-Colonel Wildman, of New stead Abbey, Notts ; Joseph Dent, Esq., of Appl e by ; M a j or Uppleby, and J. Uppleby. Esq., of Woott on H ouse ; J . G . Stapylton Smith, Esq., High Steward of Lincoln, &e. Mr. Pryme, the patriotic Membe r for Cambridge, has also pro mised to give every assistance in his power to the intended railway.—Hull Advertiser. :"s , ~.. ~~ ~~ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH FUNDS.—PA OCT. 6. Five per Cents., 105 f. 40c 35c. 25c. Four per Cents., 99f. 25c. Three per Cents., 78f. 30c, 25e. Isc. 10c. Bank Actions, 2,260 f. 2,270 f 2,265 f. flente de Naples, Vit. 40c. 45c. 50c. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., 10134. Spanish Actives, 26 25%%1A. Spanish Passives, 7% %. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 10034. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 51 514 52. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 33%. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 52f. 1-iaytian Loan, 35Uf. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 30c.; money, 25f. 2734 c. Three months, paper, 25f. 734 c. ; money, 25f. Sc. —('ours Authentivie. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 6.—A letter from Amsterdam informs us, that besides the orders given for the augmentation of the garrison of Holland, in part of its frontier, fortresses, and its maritime towns, the King has resumed the contract commenced in Hanover and in other States of North Ger many to increase his army by two brigades. Money has been assigned for the purchase of 600 or 700 horses for those brigades. There will be some furloughs in the Corps of Dutchmen, but a new organization of the Schuttery, by which it would be re-inforced, is spoken of. It is affirmed that the troops of Gomez entered Carolina (in Andalusia) on the 26th ult. This town is situated six leagues from Jaen, 14 leagues from Grenada, and 15 leagues from Cordova.—Memorial Bordelais. The hotel of the Count de St. Aulaire, Ambassador of France at Vienna, has fallen a prey to the flames, on the 26th September. The Suabian Mercury, which gives the news, says nothing of the cause of the fire ; but it states, that there being a deficiency of water, the fire spread so, that a multitude of valuable effects were burnt, and there are some irreparable losses. Espartero, the new General in Chief of the Queen's Army, arrived on the 24th at Calaporra, where General Oraa was with a division. The Gazette de France gives the following news, with out preamble or commentary :—Two chosen companies, taken from each of the battalions that compose the Army of Navarre, are going to form a division, under the com mand of Villareal, which will pass the Ebro, and take the route to Madrid.—Journal du Commerce, Oct. 6. BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The payments ran cif very regularly yesterday ; not one defaulter has been declared to day. With fresh courage the jobbers have done a great deal of business, and the prices were improving; the Three per Cents. were already, at Tosimi's, at 78f. 40c.: this price has maintained itself for some time at the Bourse, but has since receded (after two or three fluctuations between 78f. 30c. and 40c.) to 78f. 25c., rather sellers. It seems to be difficult, notwithstanding the efforts which are made, to maintain these high prices. The Spanish Active Stock opened at 26, and declined at 251. The nens from Madrid of the 28th is, how ever, not of a gloomy cast. P. S. All the efforts to keep up the price of the Three per Cents. have been in vain ; a quantity of Rentes having come to market, the price dropped to 78f. 20c., with a heavy market. No news. LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 105 f. 25c. ; Three Per Cents., 78f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons. Gueb hards, —; Differes, 9 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 251; Pas sives, 7tl ; Ducats, 97 60 ; Romans, 101 k; Pedros, 52 ; Belgians, 1004; Dutch, 52f. —c. ; Haytians, 350 f. ; Mi guels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —; Three per Cent. Portuguese, 33.1. SPAIN. (From the Journal des Debats.) The road taken by the Carlist Brigadier Pablo Sanz to reach the Asturias, is more direct than that previously fol lowed by Gomez. Sanz was expected to cross the Ebro, in the direction of Calahorra, to the east, while Gomez passed the line at a distance of more than 40 leagues towards the west. Is he going into the Asturias, to remain in the province, to penetrate into Galicia, or to descend towards Leon, Palencia, Valladolid, and thence proceed to the mountains of Segovia, which command the province of Madrid ? Those several roads are open to him, the more so as that part of Spain is without troops, all the disposable forces being now concentrated in the eastern provinces, towards the kingdom of Valencia, and even towards the south, to operate against Gomez. General Rodil, who takes the command of the central army, which is intended to guard the frontiers of Castile, Arragon, and Valencia, had his head-quarters, on the 21st of September, at Alcala de Henares ; on the 23d, at Gua dalaxara ; and on the 25th at Buendia, six leagues from Guadalaxara, between Sacedon and Almonacid de Zorita. He could, from thence, march towards Lower Arragon, by Albaraziin and Teruel, or towards the province of Valencia, by Cuenca and Chelva. Nothing official has reached us respecting his subsequent movements. A corps of between 5,000 and 6,000 men is placed under his imme diate orders. Beceite, the town alluded to in the dispatch from Per pignan, is situate in the mountains, six leagues to the East of Tortosa, and served as the habitual retreat of the insur gents of that district. Brigadier Borso succeeded in enter ing the town during the absence of the latter, who had gone to join Gomez, at Utiel ; but it appears he hastened back to Tortosa, without even attacking the fort of Beceite, which is still held by the Carlists. The Spanish journals of the 26th and 27th ult. contain no intelligence respecting the march of Gomez, or the ope rations of Alaix. The complete silence of those papers is somewhat systematical ; it would seem that the utmost mystery was affected, for the purpose of exciting no alarm among the bankers of London and Paris. If Brigadier Alaix were still at Villa Robledo on the 24th, as stated in the Bayonne dispatch, that is to say, four days after his victory, it must be supposed that the affair was of little importance, and that the twelve hundred pri soners are a motley band of recruits, accompanying the baggage of Gomez, or that Brigadier Alaix did not con ceive himself sufficiently strong to follow the insurgents into the mountains of Alcaraz. It is said that Gomez had returned to Osa de Montiel, on hearing that Brigadier Alaix remained at Villa Robledo. It appears certain that Gomez has ever since been marching in a southern direction. He passed through Villa nueva de los Infantes near Alcaraz, crossed over the moun tains of that name, and those of Segura, and is now on the southern side of the Sierra Morena, in the district of Jaen, a province of Andalusia. On the 24th of September Gomez passed through Mon ti zon, a village situate at the foot of the mountains to the east of La Carolina, proceeding evidently towards Lina res, Baylen, and Andujar. There being no chanoe of Gomez succeeding in propa gating the insurrection in Andalusia, it is probable that, af ter marching along the southern declivity of the Sierra Mo rena, he will recross that chain, on the limits of La Mancha and Estremadura, and take up a position in the mountains of Toledo, where it will be easier for him to maintain him self a long time. SWITZERLAND. (From the Swiss papers, quoted in the French papers.) It is a curious fact, that among the members of the pre sent Government of France there are three Ministers who have been educated in Switzerland, or by Swiss masters, viz., Messrs. Guizot, Gasparin, and Duchatel ; M. Deles sert, the Prefect of Police, who is of Swiss extraction, and M. Mole, who, at the time of the emigration, came to de mand and received hospitality in Switzerland. We might also include the King, who has ever expressed gratitude for the distinguished manner in which he had been treated, when, being only Duke de Chartres, he sought shelter in our country.—Federal. At a moment when the attitude the French Govern ment assumes with regard to Switzerland creates such dis content, we deem it necessary to remind our fellow-citi zens of the importance for them to abstain from any demon stration that might be construed into an insult or injury against the French citizens who crowd our territory, what ever may be their opinions respecting the subject of our differences with France. A single act of the kind might become a pretext for new grievances, and it is only by uniting prudence to wise firmness that Switzerland w ill b e able to extricate herself from the difficulties with which she is now surrounded. Besides, if Switzerland be weak in comparison with France, every Frenchman in our country is weak compared to the Swiss population, among whom he lives, and it would be the height of cowardice to profit of his isolated situation to wrong him.—Federal. The Federal disapproves of the late resolution of the Grand Council of Vaud, which it ccksiders as "an act of legal rebellion, betraying, in its opinion, a want of reflection and a levity which was not to be expected from a legislative assembly." The clerical party in Switzerland was fully aware of what was going on in Paris. For some days before M. de Bel leval's retur n to Berne, the Pope's Nuncia had announced, and several Clergymen had written to their friends, that the French Government was about to send a fulminating ulti matum, whi c h w of all intercourse abs e t t o w b e e en fo t l h lo e w t e w d o b c y ou an nt i r m ie m s. ed T ia h t e e daycessation f all intercourse b etween the two countries. The day after the ultimatum was given into the Directory, the same Nuncio, desirous, n o d ou b t, to add to the perplexity of the Swiss Government, presented a note, in which the preten sions See we re expose d i n a most press i ng manner, oner,fthewith an ilnsinuation that the foreign Powers were disposed to support them. Those coincidences and insinuations are the natural con sequencesthe commencement, o the conduct proved of d himself th e advocate and pro tector,ro in Switzerland, of t he counter-revolutionary party p connected with the Holy Alliance, and even came forward on several occasions, in his official character, to further the views of that prelate. But this is not all :no sooner was the notification of the 27th made, than the Catholic clergy throughout the Confederation commenced intriguing to counteract the grand national movement now preparing THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1836. (the elections to the Extraordinary Diet), and to sow dis union wherever they enjoy some influence, with the view of creating a new schism, similar to that of Saarnen. Several have been arrested by order of the Cantonal Government, particularly in the Catholic part of the Jura, which belongs to Berne. The latter are so daring, on ac count of the vicinity of the French department of the Doubs, where they are always sure of finding an asylum. In order to curry favour with our Court Bishops, many of them have already caused their names to be inscribed among the members of the Catholical, Apostolical, and Roman Association, lately formed in Paris under the pa tronage of powerful personages.—Courrier Francais. We mentioned yesterday that M. de Tschann has re ceived orders from the Helvetic Directory to quit Paris immediately. We were correctly informed, but having been suddenly seized with a rather serious indisposition, the Swiss representative despatched a courier to Berne to in form the Vorort that illness obliged him to postpone his departure. He has already demanded his passports, and will set out the moment his health will allow him to travel. —Courrier Francais. Our commercial interests will materially suffer from the cessation of all intercourse with Switzerland. The affair and its consequences are beginning seriously to alarm our frontier departments, as also Marseilles and Lyons, which carry on so much business with Switzerland. Savoy and Piedmont, Genoa and Turin, will, in all probability, profit by this non-intercourse to monopolize our trade with that country.—Courrier de IRELAND. DUBLIN, OCT. 6.—THE ARCHBISHOP.—The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin yesterday addressed a letter to the clergy of his diocese. The Dublin Evening Post of this day observes that " this letter will produce a most salutary impression upon all minds but those steeled against truth and charity. The rogues, fanatics, and apostates will abuse it. The forger-Todds, the Crotties, the Cooke:, and the Ebenezer-men will be up in arms. But such Protestants as the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Killaloe— such Protestants as Doctor Carlile and Doctor Montgomery will as highly estimate a letter which breathes such truly Christian sentiments, as the most devoted member of the Catholic Church." MR. O'CONNELL AND Ma. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.—In a communication to a contemporary, Mr. O'Connell thus corrects some misprints in his letter to his constituents : " Having expressed my own opinions in favour of the total abolition of tithes, it is added—' I qualify them only by adding, that I would substitute a small tax on the landlords, not payable by the landlord, lest he should absorb all the advantage of the abolition.' It should have been printed thus —A qualify this opinion only by adding, that I would substitute for tithes a small tax on the rent—a tax pay able by the landlord, lest he should absorb all the advan tage of the abolition.' You perceive that, as printed, the sentence is either nonsense, or if it have any meaning, it means directly the reverse of what I intended to convey, which was, a tax payable by the landlord on the rent he actually received." Mr. O'Connell adds, that he will reply to Mr. Baines's letter on Friday, on the subject of Peerage Reform, maintaining that the argument is with him, even on Mr. Baines's own showing. Mr. Sharman Crawford, in a letter of the 4th instant, states, that he will reply to Mr. O'Connell's letter on Friday.—Dublin Evening Post. TITHE CAMPAIGN.—The progress of the war in this district (county of Limerick) is thus reported :—Every day brings us accounts of the progress of the tithe war in the surrounding counties. The Rev. Incumbent of Pallas Green had his rebellion ruffians out scourinc , the country on Thursday morning last. They made an effort to capture a defaulter, named John Leonard, but were disappointed, as he got timely warning of their approach by the sounding of horns and shouting of the people, who were assembled in great crowds. Leonard, at the same time, was located on the top of Knockgraney Hill, from which he made his escape amid the cheering of the myriads present. This was the second attempt to take Leonard, the former having been attended with like success. The ruffians were assisted by sixteen policemen, under the command of Chief Constable Hodnett, of Barrington's Bridge, who seems (states a cor respondent) to evince a great anxiety in the collection of tithes. The letter of Patrick O'Dwyer, written from our county gaol, detailing the dreadful privations he has suf fered, in consequence of his arrest by Parson Coote, last week, we have received too late for insertion this post. We may be allowed once more to ask when and how this un holy war against the very existence of a people, is to end ? We dare not trust ourselves with even our surmises on the subject.—Limerick Star. In the county of Kilkenny the rebellion ruffians are actively at work ; but the people are not idle. The fol lowing is from the Kilkenny Journal :—ln the county Kil kenny, and throughout Ireland, the parsons, and the lay impropriators, are busily at work, through the agency of process-servers and rebellion ruffians. We shrink from entering into an anticipation of the scenes which the coming winter will witness in Ireland. But we trust the evils at which the parsons—Ministers of Religion!—followers of Christ (bitter irony !)—are madly driving, will be averted by the people themselves. Let them in all parts of the country contribute to the justice rent, and thereby be pri vileged to claim its protection. In this county, the pari shioners of Ballycallan, Clare, Blackrath, &c., intend to meet in their respective parishes next Sunday, and to con tribute largely to the national fund. Every remaining Parish should do the same. Those who wish to defeat the parsons—those who wish for corporate reform—those who desire to have justice done to Ireland, will send up their contributions without delay, and become members of the National Association. EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE .—We beg the Orangemen, and all revilers of his Excellency Lord Mulgrave's Govern ment, to read the following paragraph, which we take from the Londonderiy Journal :—" It will be recollected that at last Derry Assizes, two Orangemen were convicted of a truly savage assault upon Mr. George Proctor, of New town-Limavady;and sentenced by Judge Torrens to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. The assault had been concerted in an Orange lodge, and Mr. Proctor, in the darkness of the evening, was mistaken for another indi vidual upon whom the culprits were, according to their in structions, to have committed the outrage. In consequence of an application for mercy made on their behalf by Mr. Proctor, the Lord Lieutenant, in the course of last week, directed the immediate liberation of the prisoners. The public cannot have forgot the loud and protracted clamour which was raised against the Government for having, some time ago, upon an application made to it, and which was at least signed by the then Mayor of Derry, abridged the term of imprisonment of two Catholics of this city of the name of York, to which they had been sentenced by Chief Baron Joy ; so as to equalize their punishment with that awarded to their prosecutors, who, in a cross case, had been found guilty of the same offence. It was a clamour as silly as it was vulgar and malignant —meant to create the impression that the Catholics met with undue favour at the hands of Government. The fact, that only a few years before, a Whig Government, though not the very same as the present, had, at the instance of Sir John Byng, now Lord Stafford, liberated whole batches of Orangemen, long before the expiry of their term of imprisonment, to which they had been doomed for outrages at Magherafelt, of the most savage nature (so Mr. G. Dawson at the time de scribed them) ought to have imposed silence upon the au thors of that clamour, had honesty or shame been an ele ment of their nature. But what will they say to this re cent instance of Vice-Regal clemency ? Why, they will say nothing of it at all—unless, indeed, these few remarks of our's provoke from them some observations conceived in their usual flippant spirit ? Positive falsehood and the sup pression of truth are their favourite, indeed, their only, tac tics. We ought to mention that among the offenders li berated from Lifford gaol by his Excellency, on his last tour to the North, were two Orangemen convicted of a mid night assault upon a dwelling-house in the neighbourhood of Pettigo. DUBLIN CORPORATION.-Our morning contemporaries have rather halloed before they got out of the wood. Their dirty Honours did drink the Glorious Memory, &c., as we find by the following notice in one of their dirty Ga zettes High Sheriff Veevers' Dinner.—By an accident the following toasts, which were proposed and drank at the High Sheriff's dinner on Tuesday evening were omitted in our report of the proceedings The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland:—Three times three. Some of the company drank Prosperity to Ireland ;' others for ' Hurrah !' cried,' Away !" The Glorious, Pious, and Im mortal Memory of King William the Third.'—Drank with nine times nine, and all the honours ; and the Kentish Fire. " THE HARVEST.—WC perceive, with regret, says the Dublin Evening Post, by two agricultural reports from the north and north-west of Ireland, that the crops, particularly potatoes, are in a very unfavourable state. In fact, another famine amongst the poor is apprehended in the northern and western counties. In the absence of poor laws, a re petition of such a calamity would prove most disastrous. The following is the last report from the south :—We re gret to learn that the harvest is still very backward in the country, where fields of oats and barley may be seen quite green on the stalk, and without any evidence of approach ing maturity. This observation applies to several other counties besides Limerick, where the grain is in the same unripe state. TORY SHIFTS.—The mercenaries of the Orange faction having exhausted the ammunition of abuse for which their party is so notorious, and finding the high character and judicious conduct of Lord Mulgrave invulnerable against all their attacks, appear to have retreated a little for a sea son, in order to see what can be done by unfurling another Standard. A new commander of the forces, accordingly, last Tuesday took the field, and it is confidently predicted that the Lord Lieutenant cannot long hold out against so consummate a master of political warfare. His first attack, of which the following i s a samp l e, di sp l ays cons id era bl e . energy. His, be seen, is no bush-fighting ; he marks his man, and with a noble disdain of political aims, vigo rously attacks the person of his enemy :—" Lord Mulgrave is a vain man, and his vanity, that is within public observa tion, is of the meanest description—it is the vanity of being thought a handsome man ; that such is the case, the pains he takes, and the artifices he resorts to, for personal deco ration and exterior effect, prove the premises. A great mind cannot descend to the fashion of a shoe-tie, and its aspirations take a higher flight than the adjustment of an elf, or love-lock. A man occup i e d b y suc h cares is either too young or too old to govern a country—he is unfit to govern at all. Lord Palmerston is a coxcomb whose age we all know, despite of his curls and his rouge ; but our foreign and hom e p o li c y a lik e s h ow , th a t it i s not Narcissus' young or old that we want, but Statesmen." After thus spoiling the beauty of one enemy, and accusing the other of dressing in the fashion of other men, our lite rary Trojan makes a thrust at the Marquis of Anglesey in the following graceful manner :—" The Marquis of Angle sey (quoth the Standard) was also a vain man, and a most weak and silly Statesman, but possessed some rede em i ng qualities. H e s t oppe d i n t h e career o f factious and guilty subserviency. He would not serve under O'Connell, and was succeeded by Lord Mulgrave. We shall resume this subject in our next, and follow his Excellency to the iast folly and mischief of his rule. Our labour, we trust, will not be long continued ; we have a presentiment that the sphere of his political antics will be soon changed." " A presentment !"—nay, a certainty ! His Excellency can never survive the repeated attacks of so able and deter mined an opponent. By next post we expect to receive in telligence that Lord Mulgrave is no longer Viceroy in Ireland! ORANGE FLOWERS AND Standard PROPRIETY.—The Tories, everywhere in Ireland, as well as England, possess one advantage at least, over both Whigs and Radicals ; they have always at command a magazine of vituperative terms, unequalled both for extent and the peculiar kind of weapons contained in it. A new paper, apparently desi rous of obtaining that notice from the use of the most blackguard Billingsgate which it seems conscious could not be gained by its efficient advocacy of the Orange party, to which it belongs, has convinced us that the Standard can at least do the work of a scavenger in a style which even the Times itself could not surpass. The Irish political adventurer has contrived to collect together as much dirt in one column, in order to calumniate Mr. O'Connell, as his fellow-labourers in the same foul-mouthed vocation have ge nerally been able to heap up in several. Amongst other names which this master of Billingsgate bestows on the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, are—" execrable ruffian "—" mendicant impostor "—" wretch ! "—and then comparing him with Cataline, he exclaims—" How like the sanguinary demagogue of ancient Rome is the Fiend of Darrynane." Mr. O'Connell is, besides, one of the Stinkbinksem of Africa ; " an " experienced cheat and a practised liar " also. This is the language of Conservatism—these are the terms of a Standard gentleman. In another part of this exceedingly cre ditable composition, so truly Conservative in all its bearings, Mr. O'Connell is designated the " blasphemous miscreant," and is accused of usurping the functions of God himelf! Then follow close "impious ruffian," " rascal" " blackguard," "bloody-minded calumniator." There is much genuine piety in the following passage—the absence of all arro gance and uncharitableness cannot fail to be remarked : " The Scriptures," says this true soldier of the Tories, " mention that Ananias and Saphira were struck dead for telling lies about a paltry sum of money ; and would it be any wonder if the thunders of Omnipotence were launched against a wretch whose life, from week to week, and from month to month, forms one unbroken chain of lies, curses, and calumnies, uttered for the purpose of gaining money." Language equally indefensible and atrocious is, we believe, without a parallel. The article on which we have bestowed more notice than it deserves, concludes in terms the fla grant nature of which needs no comment :—" We conclude our first essay on this moving abomination, by acknowledg ing that he has practically verified that part of Holy Writ which says, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children,' for he has proved, incontrovertibly, that bad blood cannot be purified of its taint and virulence by cir culating through the veins of a scoundrel race for four generations." We do not either envy the feelings of the man or covet the reputation of the writer who can employ against a political opponent such language as this. It is disgraceful in the last degree. HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BEAGLE. His Majesty's surveying sloop Beagle has at last re turned from her long employment in South America, and other parts of the world. She sailed from England in 1831, from which time until 1835 she was surveying the coasts of South America, the Falkland and the Galapagos islands. Traversing the Pacific Ocean by the way of Otaheite (or Tahiti) and New Zealand, she proceeded to visit Sidney, Hobart Town, King George's Sound, the Keeling Islands, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Hlena, Ascension, Bahia, Pernambuco, the Cape Verd and the Azores Islands. Meridian distances have been very carefully measured by a large number of good chronometers, during the whole voyage. Observations for latitude, for the variation and dip of the needle, for the in tensity of magnetic influence, and upon tides, have been made at each principal port. This connected chain of good meridian distances, is the first that has been carried round the world. From fourteen to twenty chronometers have been employed, and the results are highly interesting. Geology and Natural History will receive contributions from this voyage, as well as Hydrography and Geography. Mr. Charles Darwin, a zealous unpaid tributary to the cause of science, has laboured unremittingly. The medi cal and other officers have collected, in proportion to their opportunities and limited means of preserving specimens. It is gratifying to state that, in consequence of accidents on board or employment on service, no life has been lost, nor has any serious injury been sustained by any one indivi dual. No boat has ever met with a material accident (ex cept one washed away in a gale off Cape Horn) nor has any man ever fallen overboar. Not a spar has been sprung (except studding sail booms) not a sail has been split till worn too long, nor is there a sheet of copper off the vessel's bot tom ; yet this little ship, one of the much-abused ten-gun sloops, sometimes called coffins, has always carried between seventy and eighty people, seven boats, and an unusual quantity of stores : besides which, she has often sailed with more than eight months provisions on board. The Beagle was so well fitted out at this Dock-yard, and has since been so timely supplied by direction of the Admiralty, that neither want nor deficiency has ever occurred. Some of the officers and men have served more than ten years in the Beagle, having shared all the disagreeables of a former voyage to Terra del Fuego, in 1826-30. The Beagle arrived here on Wednesday, via Falmouth, and is lying at anchor between the Royal Clarence Baths and Mount Edgecombe. Captain Fitzroy and his officers appear in excellent health and spirits, and are visited by nu merous persons from the towns, anxious to congratulate them on the successful termination of their interesting ex pedition. We never saw a ship in better condition, or a Liner set of men as a crew. Captain Fitzroy was promoted to the rank of Post Captain in December, 1834. She hes the same officers with the exception of the purser, Mr. Barlow, who died on the voyage. Our readers will doubt less recollect the account we gave of the death of Mr. Hillyar, the Captain's clerk, who was drowned at the Falkland islands, while on a shooting excursion.—Devon port Independent. AEROSTATION. MR. GREEN'S ACCOUNT of the 1 OURTH VOYAGE and DESCENT of the VAUXHALL BALLOON. In the account of my second ascent with the new bal loon, I remarked having seldom experienced such favour able weather as on that day ; but, yesterday, unfortunately, proved the contrary, for during the many years I have been in the habit of using balloons, I never ascended in such an incessant fall of rain. The clouded state of the atmosphere of yesterday was calculated in a much greater degree to astonish and de light those who have never made an aerial excursion, than that of a bright and clear day, for although the view of the earth is much obscured, the passage through the masses of floating vapour rolling along, and adapting their waves to the undulations of the different currents, and the com plete insulation of the machine from all other objects ren ders the scene one of the most extraordinary that can be conceived. The first layer of clouds was not more than 800 feet from the earth ; this we soon passed through, and found another about 1,000 feet above us, and as we proceeded between the two, were enabled at intervals to see the coun try through the open spaces in the lower one. Here the rain still fell in torrents, and although the balloon acted as a com plete covering to the car, still the drops of water trickled down the silk from all sides, and meeting at the neck, formed a large stream of water, falling, of course, into the centre of the car, and passing through the basket work. By altering the direction of this stream, we were able to keep the ladies in a great measure free from its effects, who were, however, so completely engaged in admiring the won derful scene around them, that they appeared little to heed the above inconvenience, or our precautions to obviate it. We now passed through two more layers of clouds, the up per one being 3,500 feet above the level of the sea, as indi cated by my barometer. It was from this layer that the wet was principally falling, for en our arriving at its upper surface the rain had ceased. There was still at a great altitude a sheet of clouds, suffi cient to exclude the sun's rays, and to this I attribute the condensation of the vapours below in the form of rain, for the rays of heat being reflected by it, none could have much influence on the lower parts of the atmosphere, whose mois ture, instead of existing in a highly expanded form becomes, in the partial absence of heat, and probably from a change in its electrical state, condensed into masses of vapour, the particles of which, by their mutual attraction, form drops of water. There are doubtless many unknown causes com bining to produce these effects ; but from numerous obser vations I believe the above statement to be nearly a correct one. The netting, the sand bags, and indeed every part of the apparatus, was completely saturated with water, which must have increased the we►ght by at least 4001b5., and this aug menting every instant by the absorption of wet by our cloaks, &c., rendered an almost continual discharge of bal last necessary until we reached the dry atmosphere. My companions, the ladies especially, wished much to surmount the upper sheet of clouds, in order to witness the splendid effect produced by the light of the sun falling directly on it ; but the great evaporation which must instantaneously have taken place from the whole machine would have caused us to ascend rapidly to a very great altitude, and have prevented our reaching terra firma before dark. After a voyage of one hour and 20 minutes, we descended in the parish of Denham, in Buckinghamshire, about two miles north-west of Uxbridge (and 22 from Vauxhall), where we received the congratulations of numerous friends who had witnessed my ascent from that town on the 6th of October, 1835, exactly one year previous. Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, Oct. 7. C. GREEN. WOODEN CAKES.—The following curious adver tisement is from the Philadelphian, American paper : " Ladies who are about to make large parties, for the sake of keeping up appearance, and supporting the family dignity, are informed that they can be furnished, at the shortest notice, with wooden cakes, beautifully frosted, on the most reasonable terms. Also, d ur i ng t h e hi g h pr i ces o f b utter an d l ar d , t h e subscriber will k eep constant l y on h an d a f ew b us h e l s o f ma hogany dough nuts." On Wednesday afternoon an unpleasant affair took place at Croydon fair. A young gentleman (an officer of the Navy) went to witness the gaieties, accompanied by a few friends, and observed his sister, attended by a gallant Lothario (a clerk in a merchant's house in the City), ascend the steps of Clarke's show : He immediately made the requisite in quiries, and having received an unsatisfactory answer, he snatched a whip from one of the bystanders, and belaboured the gallant most unmercifully. At this moment the young lady's father arrived, and took her under his protection, leaving the gay Lothario in a most unenviable situation. It appears the young lady, who will be entitled to 12,0001. on her be coming of age, had decamped about three hours before, and her father having learned she was seento get into a fly on the Brixton-road, followed and found her in the manner described. So short is grass keep in all the best lands in So merset, particularly the marsh, that the farmers are selling part of their stock, instead of purchasing ; consequently, all the late fairs are glutted, and stock, except the best, is selling a great decline in price. The great fairs are expected to be very large. —Bath Herald. LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL. (Abridged from the Morning Post) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.—The Amphitheatre last night presented the most animated appearance. All the reserved seats were occupied by a brilliant assemblage of the Nobility and Gentry, and every part of the house commanding a view of the orchestra was crowded to excess. The symphony, of which the first movement has been so long the stock overture in the theatres, was finely performed. Loder executed the moreeazt assigned in the second move ment to the first violin with great purity of tone and finish. He was deservedly applauded. The last and well-known movement was most splendidly done, each member of the band essaying his utmost to develop every motif. Much ap probation was bestowed at the end of every movement. Mrs. A. Shaw did more than justice to Vaccaj's composi tion. Carradori Allan sang the opening air of " Amina," in the " Sonnambula," in the most finished manner. She took some distances and executed some prolonged shakes with faultless intonation and perfect precision. The elegant variety of her cadences excited the most enthusiastic plaudits, and she had a very narrow escape of an eneore. The " Dia logo Brilliante," for the flute and clarionet, Bochsa's very cle ver invention, was as much relished by the Liverpool dilet tante as at the Manchester, Norwich, and Worcester Festi vals, where it has been done. The two unrivalled perform ers, Willman and Nicholson, for whom it was expressly written, mastered all its difficulties with their usual success. That classical composition of Beethoven, the overture to Fidclio, was, strange to say, but coldly received, although it was played with infinite fire and spirit, and its various points most skilfully and carefully attended to. Mrs. W. Knyvett's singing of " Auld Robin Gray" is always ad mired. Sale's duet of " The Butterfly" was very well sung by Braham and H. Phillips. Caradori obtained an en thusiastic encore in " Coming through the rye," for she sang and acted it with delightful naivete. The chief fault of the concert was its extreme length, but the company stopped it out. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—HandeI's oratorio of " The Messiah" is always a certain attraction at Festivals, and the attendance this morning at St. Peter's Church was greater even than that of yesterday. Lord and Lady San don, the principal members of the Derby family, Lord C. Thynne, and many families of distinction connected with the town and county were present. The choral singers were quite at home in " The Mes siah." Principally chosen from the musical societies of the chief northern towns, they are in the constant habit of practising the masterly compositions of Handel and Haydn. They have evidently bees carefully drilled, under the su perintendence of Mr. G. Holder, who had every reason to be proud of the manner in which they executed the cho russes this morning. The two especial favourites, " For unto us a child is born," and the " Hallelujah," were en cored. The sensation which Mrs. 'Wood had created yes terday was, if possible, greater this morning. There is an earnestness and a fire about her style of singing which completely carry the feelings of her auditory with her. We must again repeat that, both in quality and point of voice, we consider her decidedly improved. The scene of the ex terior of the church, before and after the performance, was exceedingly animated. Every window of the houses com manding a view of the sacred edifice, was occupied with spectators, and the streets were densely thronged, to view the company going in and out of the church. BAD IS THE BEST.-Mr. Horace Smith, while lecturing the other night at the Sussex Institution, Brighton, took occasion to point out the necessity of being content with one's lot, illustrating the remark with the following bon mot : —" A friend of mine," he said, " a remarkably cool and phi losophic person, was lately travelling to London, at a moment when he was labouring under a very severe cough, which not only was extremely distressing to himself, but also proved a source of great annoyance to his fellow passengers, till, at last, an old gentleman, ensconced in the corner, observed with much displeasure, ' Sir, that's a very bad cough you've got.' —' True, Sir,' replied the other, ' but it is the best I've got I" , Thirty-four porpoises were found on the 19th ult., on the strand in the Isle of Batz. The largest, it is said, was eighteen feet long, and weighed 1,5001bs : the smallest was seven or eight feet in length, and weighed nearly 4001ba. Sixteen of these " monsters of the deep," amongst there was but one male, were transported to the quay of Roscoff, and to prevent them from escaping with the return of the tide, it was found necessary to kill them. It the course of this ope ration, which was performed with hatchets, one individual was seriously injured by a blow from the tail of one of the porpoises. A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, &C., BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," &c.—. This is, in several respects, a very remarkable book. It embraces a cu rious picture of the State of France under Louis Philippe, to whom the author was personally introduced, and contains an animated recital of his tour in Belgium, up the Rhine, and over the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland. In detailing the particulars connected with his residence in France, Mr. Cooper, who enjoyed a familiar intimacy with Lafayette, re counts many interesting conversations with the old Republican General, in which are elicited some curious statements relative to the connection between the Citizen King' and Lafayette. During the revolt which arose at the funeral of General La marque, Mr. Cooper traversed the streets of Paris, and kept a wary eye on all that was going on ; and accordingly his pages teem with vivid and graphic sketches of that event. CAILLOT, THE MURDERER.—In our last num ber, we mentioned that a petition, praying for a commutation of this wretched man's sentence, on the ground of his insanity, was about to be presented to his Majesty. We have now to inform our readers that the petition has been despatched to the Privy Council Office. Another has been signed by the mur derer's relatives, and sent to his Majesty. The latter is cer tainly the more excusable petition of the two ; but we think that the concoctors of the former—in arraigning the decision of thirty-two jurymen on oath, who had all the facts of the case before them—should have paused a little before they thus re flected on Caillot's legally constituted judges.—Jersey Argus. LORD ELIOT.—On Tuesday the friends of the Conservative cause met at Bodmin, for the purpose of making arrangements to secure the return of Lord Eliot for the Eas tern Division of Cornwall. One of the grossest compliments ever paid by man to man, or woman either, was that of the poet Benserade to Louis XIV., when that Monarch asked him what o'clock it was, and he answered " Whatever hour your Majesty pleases." Extract of a letter from Turin, dated the 27th ult., " The cholera, which for twelve months has afflicted Upper Italy, has now made its appearance in the eastern part of the Sardinian States. King Charles Albert, who last year went to Genoa at the period w h en th e di sease was a t its greatest height, again left his capital to go through the infected pro vinces, not only to visit the hospitals and the great towns, but even the smallest hamlets,jomitting nothing which can relieve, encourage, or console the sufferers." Private letters from Penang men tion that produce, with the exceptio n o f ti n , was ra ther scarce. Tin was 14, pepper 6to 61, and rice 35 dollars per roy . an. Bengal opium was 620 dollars for cash, and 675 on credit. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEE ' rriNG Additional particulars of Thursday's races : TOWN PLATE.—Calmuck m a de the best running he could to the turn of the lands, where he declined, and, with St. Lukcei: was regularly tailed off before he reached the Duke's Stan At this point Royal George headed Lord Berners' colt, beat him at the cords, and won by three parts of a length. and RUTLAND STAKES.—The horses started almost a breast a us kept so for half the distance, on completing which the C o e d colt, Algebra, and Bedlamite filly were so completely " t out " that the two favourites were running three or f our lengtp clear of them at the Duke's Stand. Corban at this part of the race had his head in front, and was pulling so tee m the that 100 to I was offered on him, and in this way h e rant .. The cords, but, well as he looked, was tiring every stride. filly collared him here, ran the stoutest, and won by a bead , to the THE astonishment of every person on the course. be THE KING'S PLATE.—Mozart made strong runn in g to bottom of the Bunbury Mile, where he shut up. Rioter t o n t up the work, Hornsea waiting till half way up the plantati % where Robinson called him, and the race was over in a cooup!ul, of strides. The Judge gave it a length, but the horse e hare doubled it, if it had been required of him. THE DERBY. 5,000 to 1,000, 2,000 to 400, and 500 to 100 were laid agst Lor Exeter's lot 5 to 1 agst Scott's Stable 17 to 2 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton 9 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Jersed r to 2,700 to 2,000 on Jereed agst Mr. Thornhill's Egeria (si ste Ceres), for the Oaks 1,000 on Jereed agst Lord Orford's Angelica filly for the Oaks 13 to 1 offered agst Lord Exeter's colt, out of Dervise's dau 20 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Flare-up 25 to L agst Mr. Greville's Mungo 35 to 1 agst each of Mr. Walker's two 35 to 1 agst each of Mr. Wilson's two 50 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wintonian 7,500 to 15aken about Lord Chesterfield's Critic by Voltaire THE OAKS. 1,000 to 500 laid on Egeria agst Lord Chesterfield's Venilla 200 to 100 on Egeria agst Col Peel's Garcia filly TThheethiasr are furtherafternoon following weather racing on Wednesday : wpaaaretixceuelaerdsingolfy The only race of any importance decided this afternoon 11 the St. Leger, the betting on which was singularly opPle`i by public running. Toga made play at the top of her °P ur i to the Abingdon mile bottom, where she fell astern. Cabit e i, carried on the running to the Duke's Stand, was passedi st d o by Alumnus, and beaten in a canter by two lengths. ".`" and Toga were dead beat at the turn of the lands. f th e tuhnefabveotut betting l o e . a In the next race Ethilda led nearly the whole way ° e r distance, St. Luke lying at her shoulder till within two from the chair, where he made his push, and won by , head, beating Coriolanus by half a length. d to T. Y. C. Handicap.—Madeira laid in front from en end, and won by a length ; the third and fourth cut a f oa l figure. Bexl e y Plate.—A good steady pace throughout. Tow , makinr , all the play till within fifty yards from the c hair, wo! re ... Royal George ran by him, and won very cleverly by two length' The The following are the names of the principal visitors: Dukes of Beaufort (and Duchess), Rutland, Grafton , a n Cbe9'• Portland ; Marquis of Exeter ; Lords Albemarle, Jersey/ a stride terfield (and Countess), G. B en ti nc k, C. M an ners, S. ° 5 " borne, Lichfield, Berners ; Sir M. an d L a d y Wood 1 , 1 1 ; ourables General Grosvenor, G. and M rs . A nson , G. and . I :r e Byng, General Upton, Colonel a n d L a dy Ali ce Peel, CO" - Gardnor, Captain Fairlie ; Messrs. Thornhill, Thornlaill,jut: Etwal, M.P., Portman, C. Wilson, E. Greville, Irby, Stanley, Worrall, Crommelin, Newton, Radcliffe, Batson, & e ; Mr. Bateman has purch a sed th e f o ll ow i ng h ors es to go , Silesia :—Rush, Sinbad, Thomasina, and several brood asa re Rush was bred by Lord Sligo, won the great cup at Hen Park last year, and is likely t o p rove serv i cea bl e to his ne master. At the Duke of Portland's dinner party this evening vl the Duke of Grafton, Lord Jersey, Lord Albemarle, Suffield, Lady W. Paulett, Lord G. Manners, Col. and Manners Peel, and Mr. S. Stanley. TWO NEWMARKET SECOND OCT OBER MEET -LA .- 6 1 W The following matches, sc., were made at N e wmarket on nesday night : Tuseday.-100 each, h. ft. T. Y. C.—Mr Greville's Mar °4- lade, Bst. 111 b., agst Lord Suffield's Promethean, Bst. f y i t, Tuesday.-100 each, h. ft. T. Y. C.—M r . rown's Airy, 121 b. agst Colonel Peel's N ew li g ht, 21b. Thursday.-100 each, h. ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Chesterfield Ginnums filly agst Mr. Greville's Grapeskin, Bst. 21b. each. m i. Friday.—Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, h. ft. T. Y. Brown's Airy, y: Bst. 121 b. ; Lord Ch es t er fi e ld' s J u li ana , Bst* Mr. Greville 's Marmalade, 7st. 111 b. RICHMOND (YORKSHIRE) RA CES• WEDNDSDAY. A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., for two yrs old ; c l o ts' Bst. 51b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b. Mr. Bell's Golden Drop .. Colonel Cradock's b. c. by Voltaire ............................ . .. ...... ............. Mr. Foljambe's f. by Vanish, out o f H e l ga , an d Mr- 131 lock's bl. f. Yarico, were not placed. Won easy. A Gold Cup of 100 gs., by subscription of 10 sovs. each ; the sue" plus to be paid to the winner in specie. Once round and a d I Mr. Jaques's Burletta, 4 y rs Cartwr ight Hon. T. Stapleton's Miss Lora, 3 yrs .............................. 5 Mr. Bell's Zebetta, 3 yrs .............................................••• Mr. Hutton's Wentworth and Colonel Cookson's Meg Me l ' were not placed. 0 The Corporation Plate of 50 sovs., given by the CorPr°%lo Richmond ; three year s , i s t. ; f our , B st 31b. ; fi ve an d u po Bst. 101 b. Heats, two miles. , 1 Mr. Jaques's Burletta, 4 yrs Mr. Attwood' s Th eme , 3 yrs... Cartwright 0 .. ...... Colonel Cradock' s F anny , 6 yrs 0 ..... 00 Mr. Wormald's Mi ss Ch ar l otte, 3 yrs A Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added from the S tspli Fund. Once round and a distance. 1 Mr. Armitage's Peter Simple, 5 yrs, 7st. 101 b W. Oate s 5 Mr. S. L. Fox's The Carpenter, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b .............. Mr. Bell's Zebetta, 3 yrs, and Mr. Stable's Hawk's Eye , 3 also started, but were not placed. The Trial St a k es o f 15 sovs. each,: with 20 added ; for tvo gre; old, Est. 81b. ; three yrs, Bst. 101 b. Fillies allowed 31b. stone in. Mr. S. L. Fox's The Doctor, 2 yrs Mr. Nuttal's Elizabeth .................................. tje ' oaf The following were not Placed :—Mr. Metcalfe's f. by ;Lee r": 2 yrs • Mr. Bell's Golden Drop, 2 yrs, and General R.— " Sadek, 3 yrs. The Winner of each Squadron of the Cavalry to run for ope of the Stake of Wednesday. 1 Mr. Blyth e ' s Th e C o lli er Rho,'" 2 Mr. R. Thompson's Holtby WREXHAM RACES.— WRDNESDA r. 0 The Wy nns t ay St a k es o f 25 sovs. each, 10 ft. Twice N unn distance. 10 Subs. waded oho Mr. Me s ty n ' s Bi r dli me A Handi cap St a k es o f 10 sovs each, with 20 added. Ilea.- tv(G ' miles. 1 1 a 11Ir. Willi ams na. L u d ford, 4 yrs, Bst. llb Joni 9 g , Mr. Lloyd na. Isaac, 5 yrs, Bst. 41b •.. .......... The Town Plate, value 50 sovs. her re' Lady M oore C arew and Mary having drawn, Ratcatc ceived 10 sovs. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Portman's Hounds on Thursday at Castle n e day, at Hatch Inn—half-past 10. A The Thanet H arr i ers en Monday at Plumstone ; We'4,l) 4 ' o 11 Alland Coast ; F r id ay , at t h e North Foreland—half-past 10. Halo`" The C. H. on Tuesday, at North Barrow ; Friday, a t Park. The Somerset Subscription Hounds on Tuesday at Crolfe°°l° Heathfield ; Friday, at Nottlecombe Kennel—half-past 10._ ging' The Hastings and St. L eonard ' s Hounds on Monday at gooral ton Corner ; Wednesday, at Kennel ; Friday, at St. . 1 4 Green-10. The Brookside Harriers on Monday at Newmarket Hill ; r ri at Telscombe Tye—half : past 10. Par k; The Cheltenham Harriers on Monday at BrockleharnP tel li. Wednesday, at Hunting Butts ; Friday, at Hawling ......C2 T U h A is T m / a r ch S Ae , WATTS AND PHELPS A . the money will be placed in the hands of Jem Parish, te e sei reu swain of the Leander, at his house in Strand-lane, f' l3l/1 i best till ten o'clock this evening. Watts is known as the ne s- O ,OP S ultimately to - cor man to Charles Campbell, the champion of the river'osf Phelps is a young man who has gradually improved, a a h idea now attained the " top of the tree." A f e w days ag ° t-nen the of this match had evaporated, as the leading gen tleme e . ,,, t iot 4 river had left town, b ut P ar i s h h as rece i ve d so me int:baud; to post the money f or W atts ; Ph e l ps h av i ng b ee n in t"" soft of Mr. Aviss, at Put ne y. I' ar i s h f orwar d e d t h e articleh oh° a letter accepting the P u t ne y man ' s challenge to Ph el P s n 'ight• replied that he had no o bj ect i on to sta k e hi s money t 7,aling' He is inclined for a s t ra i g h t- f orward wager without Cfouling' Watts, on the other hand, would prefer a waterma na and declares that w h ere two men only are c oncerned tu' f on e ` pires would have t o ca ll t h em back, if even the scull ° firs ti touched the ster n o f t h e ot h er ' s b oat. Phe l ps c ame °li- tiat i° in 1828, in the grea t oars ' wager given by the different or clubs. He ro we d w i t h Farson, and was then thought ' l ' Mit' nothing of, Noulton and Parish winning the money ybele chell, Campbell, and Maynard were all in this m atch• bolt' afterwards rowed with C o bb, an d won the FunnY C' l f in He then came m ore i n t o not i ce , an d s i gna lised hites o dfrat match with Charles Campbell against Parish an d This season he has w o n Lyon's Sovereigns, and defea t i' tt A• te in a match about six weeks since, when Clement 13 tv rt stto ° the third sculler, but it must be remembered that '; ln ns ng' water-logged all the way, and had no chance 01 I,,,, D eff, Phelps will row in the fir-boat built by Springett of ban a and belonging to Mr. Layton of the Leander •liopt, Watts in an oak boat, laid down by the celebrated Tor . 7 ro j ' ati of and at present belonging to Mr. Wood, another Gen" con es the Leander Club. The match cannot fail of creative derable interest. f or/ THE GEM AND BaiLLIANT.—In consequence. o f the b e es be es obtained by the Brilliant in the late matc h she h of • the backed at 30/. to 201. against the Gem. The owne r a s tiffe r has accepted the challenge. The Gem is certainlY boat than the Brilliant, but she is no use to her in lig ht v ice • the The daughter of a gentleman of fortune in tra ra' silty of St. James's-street, absented herself on Tuesdl_sot ing at an early hour, and, as it is supposed, fled with 8 4' ves' son of Mars. The ladwho had •attained her 91; 4 d i a ut y, just had made no preparations for her flight ; but she wl'i k n e o d t o as usual after breakfast, without a servant-maid, v4h9 h eal,- attend her. She did not return ; and her absence, as rtai s aj supposed, caused anxiety for her safety. It was 85 °1 b in the course of the morning that a chaise from the . c been waiting upwards of two hours in Piccadilly, o f i a t i be f s i conveyed away a lady answering the description 01 0." obtal. — a t fugitive, accompanied by her gallant. All trac e , be p ; flight (lova" t' re the parties was, that they had taken ilex g Road. A secre t correspondence had subsisted betwe parties nearly eight months, t ~. T ;